Alan Buribayev

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Hungarian State Opera / Prokofiev War and Peace, Budapest January, February 2023.

The Kazakh conductor Alan Buribayev left us in no doubt that he had the work and the performance in his hands, and we owed much to his performance throughout the evening. I found the orchestral sound particularly convincing in the more powerful passages, and my overall impression of the chorus was similar, with the choir especially rewarding .. in the second, warlike section.  http://www.muzsika.org/haboru-es-beke/

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It proved to be a good decision to have a guest conductor, Alan Buribayev, who played Prokofiev's music with great skill, highlighting its dramatic impact and diversity. This monumental music was bound to have captivated those encountering it for the first time, and the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Choir played a huge part in this, the latter deserving special praise for their performance of the powerful choral scales.  https://fidelio.hu/zenes-szinhaz/haboruban-csak-vesztesek-vannak-177682.html

Alan Buribayev is Chief Conductor of the Astana Opera House in Kazakhstan.  He completed his tenure as Chief Conductor of the RTE Orchestra in 2016, and previous roles include Chief Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2011, Chief Conductor of the Brabants Orchestra in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2012 and Principal Guest conductor of the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra in Osaka from 2014 to 2018. 

Highly acclaimed for his intensity and spontaneity, his precision and musicianship is equally praised, and his success brings him regular invitations to guest conduct at the highest level.  Recent and future highlights include engagements with the NHK Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish National Opera, St. Petersburg Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Basel Symphony, Stavanger Symphony and the St. Gallen Symphony.  He has also conducted the Kyushu Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra and Deutsche Symphony Orchester in Berlin, the Oslo Philharmonic, NDR Hamburg, Tonkünstler Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Düsseldorf, City of Birmingham and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras, London and Dresden Philharmonic orchestras, as well as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alan has also conducted a production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades at the Opéra National de Lyon.  Elsewhere he has worked with the Baltimore and Oregon Symphony orchestras and Melbourne Symphony.  He also maintains a strong name in Japan having conducted most of the country’s major orchestras - and from 2015 to 2018 was Principal Guest Conductor of the Japan Century Orchestra in Osaka.  His debut with the Bolshoi Orchestra on tour in the UK resulted in an immediate invitation to conduct Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges in December 2011 and he has since worked with them on a regular basis.